It's over. On March 31st, 2013, it's finally over.

I am sorry to say that nothing will happen. After March 31st 2013, life will indeed continue.

However, I do understand your emotions. But I come bearing cold, hard news. The system will continue. The rich will continue getting richer. The poor
will continue getting poorer. There is no way to beat the system because there are too many in the system. Before, you could move off to some certain
far-off lands and live like a nomad. Now, even those lands are being plundered and pillaged for the resources beneath them.

Now, now the only way out of the system - the only way to beat the system - is through death. Otherwise, you can work with the system and make it work
for you - and in the off chance that you're really creative and really bright - you could probably rise in the world and become excessively wealthy;
but even that's difficult these days.

I'm sorry - but too many people are entangled within the system. A breakdown of the system will be a breakdown of life as we know it - and many will
not allow that to happen.

Well I was given a "message" about March 31st so I'm very curious to see what happens. And to be honest, IMHO anything is better than staying in a
world like ours is now, with a few power hungry wolves in command of billions of brainwashed sheep.

I'm under the impression that many did say that December 21st was the wrong date long before the date came to pass. So i don't understand what
you're saying with question number 2.

Question number 1 seems valid enough though. I have no idea. Probably never. With the way different predictions are made all the time.. one of these
days, someone will get it right. Whether it be by sheer fluke or not... somethings got to give right?

Originally posted by Deny777
Well I was given a "message" about March 31st so I'm very curious to see what happens. And to be honest, IMHO anything is better than staying in a
world like ours is now, with a few power hungry wolves in command of billions of brainwashed sheep.

Ahh another person that believes if you are happy and successful in life you are brainwashed..
Whatever gets you through the day!

Originally posted by Deny777
Well I was given a "message" about March 31st so I'm very curious to see what happens. And to be honest, IMHO anything is better than staying in a
world like ours is now, with a few power hungry wolves in command of billions of brainwashed sheep.

Ahh another person that believes if you are happy and successful in life you are brainwashed..
Whatever gets you through the day!

I did not say that. Although misery and suffering make for valuable learning experiences, IMHO that's somewhat of a medieval system and I think
there's enough people ready for a more advanced class that justifies banning power hungry ego maniacs from the planet, who are basically responsible
for most of the suffering humankind has had to endure. And by "power hungry ego maniacs" I mean anyone who spares no effort to be in a privileged
position that allows them to be in control of other people's lives, be it a politician, a union "leader" or a CEO. Also by "sheep" I really meant
people who blindly do as they're told, never questioning the system, be them happy or miserable. There are MANY levels of compliance, not all of them
are as obvious as one would think. And you'd be surprised at how fiercefully the average citizen would fight for the very system that keeps her/him
enslaved.

You could have at least said the new date is April 1 that way when it comes and goes with nothing happeining you can at least save a little bit of
face by saying april fools instead of being blasted by people which is what is going to happen. I predict it will.

In the DISinformation age, fear sells, most obviously. Therefore, there will always be another date, until the time actually arrives (or our
government shuts down the internet for our, I mean their safety).

Nowhere has it ever been said that the world would end, that we would simply poof out of existence.

The reality is that we go through ages, and we are simply transitioning into a new age, that does not mean things are simply going to change
suddenly.

The changes that occur are the ones we make, the ascension of man is simply our progress both technologically and spiritually.

Much like a new calender year we do not judge the sum of the new year by passing through one day of it, nor should we judge the sum of a new age by
the first couple of months.

I believe we will bridge the gap of science and spirit in this new age we are just beginning, all this turbulence we see in the world currently, are
its death throws of those trying to control and subvert the natural process of man.

the mayans never predicted anything for the date, other than the start of the next calendar cycle. it was actually a cause for celebration, like our
new years'.

the earth has been around for 4.54 billion years, the olmec most likely invented the long count calendar during their time (1500 BCE to 400 BCE), not
the mayans who were around much later (250 - 900 AD).

...later researchers said that, while the end of the 13th b'ak'tun would perhaps be a cause for celebration, it did not mark the end of the
calendar. "There is nothing in the Maya or Aztec or ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to suggest that they prophesied a sudden or major change of any sort
in 2012", said Mayanist scholar Mark Van Stone. "The notion of a 'Great Cycle' coming to an end is completely a modern invention."

In 1990, Mayanist scholars Linda Schele and David Freidel argued that the Maya "did not conceive this to be the end of creation, as many have
suggested".

Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that, "We have no record or knowledge
that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.

Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, said, "For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration
to make it to the end of a whole cycle", and, "The 2012 phenomenon is a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in".

"There will be another cycle", said E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute. "We know the Maya
thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this."

Commenting on the new calendar found at Xultún, one archaeologist said "The ancient Maya predicted the world would continue – that 7,000 years from
now, things would be exactly like this. We keep looking for endings. The Maya were looking for a guarantee that nothing would change. It's an entirely
different mindset."

Several prominent individuals representing Maya of Guatemala decried the suggestion that the world would end in the b'ak'tun 13. Ricardo Cajas,
president of the Colectivo de Organizaciones Indígenas de Guatemala, said the date did not represent an end of humanity but that the new cycle
"supposes changes in human consciousness".

Martín Sacalxot, of the office of the Procurador de los Derechos Humanos (Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman, PDH), said that the end of the calendar
has nothing to do with the end of the world or the year 2012

Mayan inscriptions occasionally mention predicted future events or commemorations that would occur on dates far beyond the completion of the 13th
b'ak'tun. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates"; Long Count dates together with an additional number, known as a Distance Number, which
when added to them makes a future date.

On the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of text projects forward to the 80th 52-year Calendar Round from the coronation
of the ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal. Pakal's accession occurred on 9.9.2.4.8, equivalent to 27 July 615 AD in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The
inscription begins with Pakal's birthdate of 9.8.9.13.0 (24 March, 603 AD Gregorian) and then adds the Distance Number 10.11.10.5.8 to it, arriving at
a date of 21 October 4772 AD, more than 4,000 years after Pakal's time.

...And when that day comes and goes, there will be another apocalyptic date. People have been trying to predict the end of the world for centuries,
this is no different. If the world should ever come to an end, it will probably be on a day that nobody will expect.

Live for the day, living in fear is no way to live. Death is inevitable for everyone, so why worry or try guessing when the end will happen?

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